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Confessions of a Crap Artist
By Philip K. Dick
Originally published in 1975
Trade paperback published by Vintage
Currently available
Basis for the French film "Confessions d'un Barjo"
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Plot Summary:
Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K.
Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack
Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot
ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth
is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless
objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life
that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to
rescue him from it. But seen through Jack's
murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume
prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall
to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than
Jack's, but a great deal uglier.
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Reviews
"As proof that Philip K. Dick is the Ernest Hemingway of Science Fiction, I offer his non-science fiction novel: Confessions of a Crap Artist. An examination of disfunction and insanity more than anything else, Confessions of a Crap Artist casts the blinding light of skepticism on the Mythology of the Leave it To Beaver Era." Read
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J. F. Quackenbush, Yank The Chain Book Club, 2002
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"More than his sci-fi novels which depend more heavily on circumstance, Confessions Of A Crap Artist is stronger on character development. The novel skillfully draws the reader into the characters and makes us feel their emotions." Read
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Jason Koornick, philipkdickfans.com, 2000
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